Undergarment



July31, 1928.

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Application filed January 19, 1825. serial No. 8,336.

The present invention relates to knitted undergarments and moreespecially to so.

called union suits, and has for its principal ment and organization ofthe instrumental1t1es as herein shown and described.

For lllustrative purposes the undergarobject to provide a new and usefulunderment has been shown as being of the so-called 8 garment arranged toprovide elasticit laterally of the garment below the nec band; toprovide elasticity in an up and down direction at the rear neck portionand upper shoulder portion and to provide elasticity for the arm pitportions of the garment whereby a very desirable freedom and stretchingof the garment ad acent the shoulder portions of the body of the wearerwithout inconvenience of binding and whereby a perfect fit of thearrnent upon the body of the wearer is o tamed. In order to accomplishthe desired result, use is made of a yoke of-elastic knit fabricinserted in the body of the garment and having its wales horizontally orat right angles to the wales of'the body ofthe garment and having an armpit gusset t he wales of which are arranged at an 1nclination to thewales of both yoke and body portion ofthe garment.

The invention consists of the novel construction hereinafter describedand finally claimed.

The nature, characteristic features and scope of the invention will bemore fu lly understood from the following descript on taken inconnection with the accompanying drawings forming part hereof, and inwhich:

Fig. 1, is a View in perspect ve representing a human figure clothedwith an undergarment embodying features of the invention.

Fig. 2, is a view in front elevation of the garment.

Fig. 3, is a fragmentary view in plan 11- lustrating the. directions ofthe wales ofthe oke.

y Fig. 4, is a fragmentary view of the underside of an arm pit portionof the garment; and Fig. 5, is a View hereinafter referred union suittype although, obviousl the construction about to be describe maybeadapted to any desired type of undergarment. Referring specifically tothe drawing the union suit consists of the-body portion 1,

leg portions 2, yoke 3, including the arms 4, and gussets 5. The body 1of the garment is made of an elastic knit fabric having its walesextending in a vertical direction and provided at the front median linewith the usual closing flaps 6 having buttons for fastening thefiaps'together. The body 1 is provided with an inserted yoke 3 also madeof an elastic knit fabric the wales of which run in a horizontaldirection, that is, ap proximately at right an les to the wales of thebody 1. The yoke l ias a portion of its lower edges both at the frontand garment rear secured to the body 1 by lines of substantiallyhorizontally arranged lines of stitches 7. For a portion of its extentthe yoke is secured together along its lower edges by a line of stitches8 to provide the sleeves 4. The intermediate portion of the yoke hassecured thereto by a line of stitches 9 an arm pit gusset 5 which gussetat its opposite edge 15 secured by a line of stitches 10 to the body ofthe garment. The gussets are each formed of elastic knit fabric and thewales thereof extend at an inclination to both the wales of the yoke andthe wales of the body. The yoke is provided with the usual neck band 11.The stitches 8, 9, 77, 9, 8, from arm extremity to arm extremity, asshown at the garment front in Fig. 2 and in the rear as shown in. Fig.5, extend in a horizontal direction upon a substantially straight line.

An undergarment of the character above described thus provides adjacentthe upper body, shoulder, neck, and arm portions a maximum amount ofelasticity both horizontally and vertically and in an arc of a circle,which is highly desirable especially when used by athletes when freedomof the arms and shoulders of the human bodies are prime factors.By'means of an undergarment as above described various shoulder and armmovements of the wearer may be accomplished with perfect freedom andwithout the inconvenience of binding especially at and adjacent the armpits of the present wearing garment.

It will now be apparent that I have devised a Irovel and usefulconstruction which embodies the features of advantage enumerated asdesirable in the statement of the in vention and the above descriptionand while I have in the present instance shown and described thepreferred embodiment thereof which has been found in practice to givesatisfactor and reliable results, it is to be understoo that the same issusceptible of modification in various particulars without departingfrom the spirit or see e of the invention or sacrificing any of its aovantages.

Having-thus describedmy invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is:

A knitted garment comprising a one piece body provided with verticalwales, which body extends upwardly to the neck-opening at the garmentfront and nearl to the neckopening at the garment bac a narrow,transverse seamless yoke the wales of which are horizontally extended,said yoke bein shaped to fit the neck-opening and arrange between theupper ends ofthe body and secured thereto by lines of stitches, saidyoke being extended across the garment at the rear of the neck-opening,said yoke being extended to form integral sleeve portions, and seamlessarm pit gussets each substantially of the configuration of an isoscelestrapezium, the wales of which gussets are arranged at an inclination toboth the wales of the body and the wales of the yoke, said yoke beingconnected to said body and said gussets at the front and rear by linesof stitches, the stitches at the garment front extending from theneck-opening to the sleeve ends, and the stitches at the back extendingentirely across the back to the sleeve ends, said gusset-s beingconnected by. lines of stitches extending vertically from points belowthe body top to said yoke, and horizontally across the gusset top tosaid yoke, from points short of the sleeve ends to said vertical linesof stitches.

JAMES H. CROSSINGHAM.

